Package udev_static-addon: Information
Source package: udev_static-addon
Version: 0.2-alt3
Build time: Jun 1, 2009, 12:46 PM
Category: System/Configuration/Hardware
Report package bugLicense: GPL
Summary: Set of static device nodes suitable for virtual /dev filesystem
Description:
udev_static is a package complement to udev. While udev itself deals mostly with dynamically created devices nodes, its approach is not always suitable for real-life usage. In particular, pure udev system is not able to load an appropriate module when a program accesses corresponding device node, because this device node simply doesn't exist if the module hasn't been loaded yet. modules_lookup tries to make up for this deficiency by intercepting attempts to access yet amissing device nodes and load associated modules before. Unfortunately it requires a patched version of tmpfs and still doesn't cover all possible cases recent udev packages (>= 0.50-alt3) support /etc/udev/devices/ subdirectory where system administrators can create "preconfigured" device nodes which will be copied to /dev upon udev daemon startup. But this approach when applied thoughtlessly can use a lot of space right in root partition. udev_static provides a compressed cpio archive which contains devices inodes to create upon udevd startup similar to /etc/udev/devices. But because of the form chosen (compressed cpio archive) even entire contents of old static dev package takes about 90Kb of disk space. This package contains an almost complete snapshot of /dev system excluding devices which _exactly_ are handled by hotplug or other standard subsystems
Maintainer: Valery Inozemtsev
Last changed
June 1, 2009 Valery Inozemtsev 0.2-alt3
- removed slamr (closes: #9665)
Nov. 30, 2008 Valery Inozemtsev 0.2-alt2
- fixed permission for fuse nod
June 19, 2008 Valery Inozemtsev 0.2-alt1
- added fuse nod (close #8629)